Monthly Review

5. Find out about the author. How did they end up writing this particular book? Is the author's true life reflected in the book in any way(s)?
8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.
9. Describe your favorite part in the book?

In this novel Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson is about six mutant kids who tries to find out about their parents better at Washington DC. As they headed to Washington DC they get attack by new versions of erasers and one of the member of the flocks get attacked by Ari who is Jeb's only son. FBI agents come to the hospital to question them and one of the agents wants them to stay at her house to make sure they are safe. They are sent to school and they escape far away from the erasers. Max and the flocks are headed to Florida to the Itex to destroy their cooperation.

James Patterson is the bestselling author of his writing career and the Time magazine feature called him, "The Man Who Can't Miss." He also wrote about thriller, nonfiction, and romance novels. In the North America by itself he had sold over 16 million books. A few years ago, James Patterson sold more books than all of the other authors and the books that he sold all together was about 170 million copies in worldwide. With all that copies being sold, he must be wealthy. He is the very first author to receive the number 1 brand new titles simultaneously on The New York Times on books for adults and children. James Patterson is the number 1 best selling authors in the New York Times and holds the Guinness World Record for selling 46 most Hardcover Fiction titles. As a writer he did not have any reflection on his true life for this book.

The character who interested me in the second series of Maximum Ride is Agent Anne. She intelligent and nice. She works with the F.B.I. What seems suspicious about this character is that she kinda came out of nowhere. In the part when Fang had to go to the hospital because of Ari. Three F.B.I. agents appeared to the hospital to question the flocks. They all had to lie about their names and they were related. Max told them they were adopted and their parents are missionaries. The agents bring them to a private room to question them one on one. Agent Anne questions Max and held up a picture of Jeb. Max felt the betrayal from the picture of him. She showed a picture of an eraser and asked her if she ever saw one. Max pretends that she has not seen one in her life and describing how ugly it is. And how did she get those pictures of them. As Fang recovers from his injuries, Anne makes a nice offer to the flocks if they want to stay at her house. Since they had nowhere to go they took her offer. Anne would have to take care of six children and letting them stay in her barn house. Anne does a lot of work to take care of them and they can eat more than an average person can eat. Anne has to cook a lot of food or spend a lot of money on them. Anne takes good care of them and Max feels like Anne is her mom. Later she thinks she can trust Anne because she works for the FBI and can not be an eraser. Max tells her some information like at least that the flocks can fly. They were mutants with 98% human and 2% birds. She tells her that their parents are not missionaries. Later on Anne wants them to go to school. Some teachers were erasers and they bust out off school and try to tracked down the flocks. They head over to Anne's house to get supplies and it turns out that Anne is working with Jeb. I find that disappointing that Anne betrayed the flocks like that and I thought Anne was out to help them.

My favorite part in the book was when the flocks were being ambushed with lots of action. I was surprised how the enemy characters changed from the first series in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. In the setting as Max and her flocks are headed to Washington D.C. and they took a break from flying. As they continued their journey walking, Max randomly does a 360 she sees a dark cloud coming towards them. The flocks thought a storm is coming, erasers in a chopper, or birds. As it came closer it turns out they were erasers with wings! Also their leader of the erasers, Ari, he came back from the living dead. It could probably be Jeb and the other scientists who helped brought Ari backed to life along with the erasers being mobile in air. The scientists made the DNA transfer quickly to the erasers to make them fly. When the erasers were about to attack, Max ordered the flocks to split up in positions to get ready to fight. Max was feeling the adrenaline then she launched her foot at the biggest eraser to his chest. It was a bit weird when Fang clapped his hands against an eraser's ear making him scream and made him lose control in the air. Max and her flocks were kicking butt and the erasers just kept coming after them. Ari came lunging at Fang and manage to slice his jacket. The erasers started to retreat and it was Ari against the flocks. The flocks regrouped and Ari seemed a bit happy to see them again because he wants to keep beating them up. Ari left with his gang saying " We'll be back!" As they left the flocks waited a moment to see if there was going to be another attack but it was clear. Max notice Fang's critical hit from Ari. Max needed to get an ambulance quick and she had to risk choosing Fang's life or avoid strangers. If she did that, then Fang would die.

Statement of Purpose #3

Fourth quarter has already started with only more than two months left and it is almost summer. Every year it seems like the year is just passing by quickly. For the first semester, using writers block must been easy for everyone to write up 300 words. I was getting use to it but now we have to write up to 500 words for blogs every week. Over the third quarter I was able to extend my writing because i feel forced to write 500 words to get a grade. My grammar and vocabulary is still the same. Since, we are doing lit circle reading it helped me a little to write more from our letter groups.
For my blog topics ill probably still continue what I am writing like things that interests me and what I do in life. In the past couple of weeks I been running out of ideas to blog about so I try to remember what I did in my past life or write about something I am planning to do in the future. I try to think about a topic to blog about and be done with it so I don't have to worry about it until next week. But when I do my blog I always end up posting my blog at the last minute. Every Friday I would probably start doing my blog at like nine o'clock. I don't post my blog often before Friday and it is probably because I am lazy and tired. School is stressful sometimes with all the homework I have to do and it would take about two hours to finish it. Sometimes it would take me about four and a half hour to finish my homework when I fall a sleep for like two hours. For writing I need to proof read my blogs which I haven't been doing lately and expand my vocabulary.
For next years goal I just want to keep my grade higher than a C. Third quarter I been doing good maintaining four A's but two C's. For the rest of fourth quarter be higher than a C and for the same thing for my junior year. Ill will be taking Spanish 3 which probably be a little hard for me because I didn't really learn much this year in Spanish 2. I am still in the process of learning some as we go but not all. Algebra 2 ill be taking for math and I don't think I would have a problem with math as long as I am paying attention. US History would probably be boring but some of the topics are interesting. Physiology I will be taking for science and it seems fun to learn about the human body and how the body system functions each part. I hope i get in because Mr. Wilson is teaching it and a lot of people would probably sign up for that class. English 3 might be hard because we won't be working with writer's block and be dealing with a lot of essays and vocabulary workbooks. My last class I will be taking is current life and ethnic studies.